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Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson

Desert Island Discs Revisited Sporting Champions

From Depeche Mode to Steve Coogan. Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From 2001.

Paralympic athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson is castaway by Sue Lawley.

Tanni has won medals in four Paralympic Games.

When she was 19, she competed at Seoul and took the Bronze for the 200m.

During the following 12 years her tally of medals has increased to nine golds and three silvers.

She was made a Dame in 2005.

DISC ONE: Dunvant Male Choir with Band of Welsh Guards - Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah [Bread of Heaven]
DISC TWO: Soft Cell - Tainted Love
DISC THREE: ABBA - Waterloo
DISC FOUR: Mash Company - Theme from MASH: Suicide is Painless
DISC FIVE: Blind Melon - No Rain
DISC SIX: Steve Coogan - Knowing Me, Knowing You
DISC SEVEN: Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
DISC EIGHT: Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Steve Coogan - Knowing Me, Knowing You
BOOK CHOICE: A guide to edible foods on a desert island
LUXURY CHOICE: Five juggling balls

Producer: Christine Pawlowsky

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001.

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26 April 2026